On Wednesday, January 02, 2002 , Matthias Frost wrote the following in regards to: [SOT: TB!-aware firewall]
Do not take grc.com as gospel. It is only a port scanner, that reports all the open ports. It does not deal with OS and/or application vulnerabilities. +-------------- MF> Grettings Alastair, MF> On Tuesday, 1st January 2002, at 22:37 GMT +0000 (01.01.2002 / 23:37 MF> my local time), Alastair Scott wrote concerning "SOT: TB!-aware MF> firewall": >> On 1 January 2002 at 7:09 pm Alan wrote: >>> I just loaded the page and haven't looked at it yet. So I thought I'd >>> ask this out of ignorance anyway (LOL). Is this Outpost any better >>> than, say, ZoneAlarm - also freeware? Does it pass the tests at >>> www.grc.com (such as the Shields Up! and more importantly the Leak >>> Test)? I have to wonder what the preset rules are.. All I can think of >>> is that it allows TB to send and retrieve mail even if the Internet is >>> "Locked" (if Outpost has such a feature as ZA). >> "No" is the one-word answer ;) MF> I have to agree to Alastair. I installed Outpost and tested it on MF> grc.com. It worked fine and gave 100% stealth, also the Ad-Blocker was MF> fine. However, after half an hour of using it, my whole internet MF> connection froze. I rebooted, but again after half an hour I was cut MF> off from internet. So I uninstalled it again (not that outpost it is MF> still a release candidate only). MF> Personally I use TinyFireWall (http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny). MF> P.S.: Sorry for the OT mail. +-------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
